Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play opens, we see Shylock (Jon King)--in wheelchair, tuxedo and yarmulke--bounded off the dark stage by an enraged mob shouting "Kill the Jew." The lights go up to reveal an exquisite set, half of which is an elaborate nightclub (owned by Shylock, the program says), complete with bar and black-and-white checkered dance floor. The other half is Portia's plush, art-deco apartment. When the Keezers-clad cast breezes in, singing a hearty rendition of "Happy Days are Here Again," we are firmly placed in the '20s, when, we are to assume, everybody wore tuxedos...
When Shylock sings "Money Makes the World Go Around," in the middle of the play it is amusing. But Rossman has chosen to end the play with Antonio sitting alone in the darkened nightclub, slowly crooning this song's retrain. This seems to be an attempt to turn the play from a comedy into Shylock's tragedy...
...opening scenes feature the nightclub antics of a group of tuxedo-clad young bachelors. They who booze it up and swing (literally) from the ceiling pipes--Keezers visits the Hasty Pudding Club. There is a constant supply of suitors and young fops to hang out at Shylock's nightclub, where the bartender, played by John Frederick, does an admirable acting job both as Launcelot Gobbo and the tippling drinkmaker Salerio (Richard Rutowski) and Solanio (Peter Vrooman) clown remarkably well in these scenes: they are especially endearing when they mock Shylock's cry of "My daughter, my ducats," bat somewhat abrasive...
SENTENCED. Mark Gastineau, 28, 6-ft. 5-in.. 270-lb. all-pro defensive end of the New York Jets, who was convicted in September of assaulting a man in New York City's Studio 54 nightclub; to 90 hours of community service conducting a football camp at Riker's Island correctional facility for jailed adolescents awaiting trial. Said presiding Criminal Court Judge Alan Marrus: "I'm sentencing you to Riker's Island-not as an inmate but as a teacher...
...touch of pathos. Fierstein can appeal to both gay and straight audiences as he openly reveals how similar are the problems and desires of both worlds and how the worlds are not nearly as far apart as they might superficially seem to be. Arnold is a nightclub drag queen who falls in love, loses his lover to a woman, wants to raise a child, and has to cope with a nagging Jewish mother through it all. It can happen to anyone...